jmyeet

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by jmyeet 7mo ago
I find it fascinating how these key technologies handle upgrades and breaking changes. For example, Python eschewed breaking changes through 2.7.x but the dam has burst since 3.0 and every point release (it seems?) makes breaking changes, s
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by jmyeet 7mo ago
The UK's grid upgrades are a mix of the shift to renewables but also to handle anticipated increased demand, which will be needed regardless of the electricity source or location. I don't know what the mix is however. > Not tru
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by jmyeet 7mo ago
Spain has the advantage that solar is very effective because it's further south than most of Europe. Solar now seems to be 20-25% of Spain's electricity mix (and rapidly increasing). As cost the projected costs [1]: > We antici
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by jmyeet 7mo ago
> But overall, for the same £20bn a year you could have probably built 5 Hinckley Point C sized 3.2GW nuclear plants concurrently (assuming £4bn a year capex for 10 years). Planning began for Hinkley Point C in 20113. It was approved in
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by jmyeet 7mo ago
I couldn't disagree more. I'm going to point to Gary Stevenson [1] for why. He could probably get to the point faster but here's the core premise: Europe responded to the energy shocks since 2020 by transferring the better pa
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by jmyeet 7mo ago
I played around with Suno a little too. It's actually kind of crazy what it can produce. I mean I don't think it's objectively good in any way but for many applications this (and a lot of other generative AIs) are what I&#x27
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You mean like siding with the dictatorial regime that provided material support to the 9/11 hijackers, 15/19 of whom were nationals of that country? And then we wanted to question 3 menders of the royal family who were implicated
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by jmyeet 7mo ago
One doesn't really need to go much further than this Daily Show compilation to see what happened [1]. As for Iraq, the article is just wrong. Here's a 1998 letter sent to then-president Bill Clinton urging him to invade Iraq [2].
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by jmyeet 7mo ago
This is just pure nonsense. The only reason for "cartels" is regulatory capture. Most of the cost of an ISP is the so-called "last mile". Depending on your locale this is usually either stringing up cables on existing te
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by jmyeet 7mo ago
The funny thing about this is that since 1945, France keeps and uses the majority of the gold reserves of 14 former French colonies in West and Central Africa and uses that power to make them use the CFA Franc, a currency pegged formerly to
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by jmyeet 7mo ago
We don't even need to theorize how this can go wrong. We've got a real example: the French CFA system that is used to do economic colonialism in West Africa [1]. Basically, it works like this: 14 French-speaking Africian former co
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by jmyeet 7mo ago
It's kind of weird that Youtube search continues to be as bad it is. I honestly don't get it. When video first became popular, I got it. Scrapers had very little to go on: title, channel, tags (later), description, likes, dislikes
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by jmyeet 7mo ago
Jamming cell signals is illegal. There are good reasons for this such as people who are on call or people who need to call 911. The only way around this is to build somewhere that happens to have no cell reception.
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by jmyeet 7mo ago
It doesn't take that long to learn to read sheet music (or tabs especially) and you could treat it like just playing a sequence of notes but you're never going to get far that way. You need to understand why certain notes go toget
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by jmyeet 7mo ago
If you happen to work at a company of even a moderate size, but particularlly a large company, here's some free advice. Never point out the problems. There is literally no upside to doing this and plenty of downside. You will be labell
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by jmyeet 7mo ago
Cost overruns are a great argument even if you ignore the massive time overruns, which you can't. All those cost overruns factor into the electricty price forever. Flamanville has a 60 year lifespan for this reason and even then has an
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by jmyeet 7mo ago
Short answer? No: > Nuclear development is a long-term project, not a short-term fix to current energy insecurity. Long answer? Still no. Flamanville [1] took 15 years (1o over estimate) and the cost was five times what was projected. Hi
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by jmyeet 7mo ago
I personally think that doing a layoff of more than 2% of your workforce or 1000 people, whichever is high, should restrict you from filing for a work visa for a period of 3 years. Or you can buy your way out of that restriction by paying e
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by jmyeet 7mo ago
I don't think we do. I think this is our Teutoburg Forest moment [1]. Part of the issue is there's no real opposition in the US to what's going on. The Democrats being the controlled opposition party aren't in opposition
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by jmyeet 7mo ago
It depends where you draw the line. The extended players include: 1. Russia (as you say): I think this war of choice virtually guarantees a settlement of the Ukraine war along the current borders. At some point Europe will need to ease thei
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by jmyeet 7mo ago
There are 4 players in this war and they all have very different goals and "victory" conditions. 1. Israel wants to ruin Iran permanently, to turn it into Somalia 2.0, meaning a quasi-state with no organized, central government. W
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by jmyeet 7mo ago
This comment section is so weird. This seems like a decent analysis to me. It also backs up what's been pretty obvious for some time: solar is the future. Yet we have: - Pointing out the corn ethanol scam. Ok, that's fair. We woul
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by jmyeet 7mo ago
What we're seeing is the culmination of these three ideas: 1. Prosperity theology [1]. This idea took hold in early Protestantism. Even if you're not religious, it's had an undeniable impact on the West (including the so-call
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by jmyeet 7mo ago
What are we witnessesing is the beginning of the end of the post-WW2 rules-based international order. What's truly bizarre is that the US designed this order to benefit themselves and they're the ones destroying it now. NATO is a
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by jmyeet 7mo ago
People reading this may not realize how pervasive gambling is in Australia thanks to poker machines ("pokies"). These are slot machines, basically. And they're everywhere with one exception: they're illegal outside of
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by jmyeet 7mo ago
> Prohibition doesn’t work. Actually, it did work [1]: > Courtwright’s The Age of Addiction has the statistics: “Per capita consumption initially fell to 30 percent of pre-Prohibition levels, before gradually increasing to 60 or 70 pe
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by jmyeet 7mo ago
This is such a strawman argument because nobody expects nobody expects all wealth to be redistributed absolutely equally. What many of us would like however is a sufficient baseline. I've recently seen a seris of Tiktoks from a 50 year
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by jmyeet 7mo ago
I had an iPhone 11. It was a good phone. It started giving up in early 2024. I held on with poor battery life until the new iPhones that year and bought the 16 Plus. I'm glad actually because they're discontinued the Plus models,
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by jmyeet 7mo ago
The C string and C++'s backwards compatibility supporting it is why I think both C and C++ are irredeemable. Beyond the bounds overflow issue, there's no concept of ownership . Like if you pass a string to a C function, who is re

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